[FlashCodersNY] Another Papervision question (Textfiled on a plane)

Tue Sep 15 15:43:37 PDT 2009

that's what I'm thinking too. None of the interactive demos I have manage to
get text selection working. :-(
Seb Lee-Delisle
Technical Director
pluginmedia.net

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:53 PM, ali tan ucer <alitanucer at gmail.com> wrote:

> sure.. will do that soon.
> i guess you need to do the textfield highlight manually by tracking the
> location of the selection by mouse cords.
> and the one that i send as an example looks like fake or maybe an overlay
> of the original movieclip to track the clicks on the textfield.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Seb Lee-Delisle <sebstar55 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I'm honestly not sure it'll work for textfield selection but send me the
>> code and I'll ask somebody who knows :-)
>> Seb
>>
>> Seb Lee-Delisle
>> Technical Director
>> pluginmedia.net
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>   On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:49 PM, ali tan ucer <alitanucer at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I know that fix.
>>> it is more for setting the focus to the textfield when you want to make
>>> it editable.
>>> papervision gives a focus to the textfield but clicking an draging still
>>> doesnt work inorder to highlight the textfield.
>>>
>>> Did anybody able make this?
>>>
>>>   On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Joe Kauffman <joe at firemaplegames.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I found a blog post which said that you have to set the stage focus of
>>>> the textfield...
>>>>
>>>> myTextField.stage.focus = myTextField;
>>>>
>>>> Here is a link to the blog post:
>>>>
>>>> http://forum.papervision3d.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=121
>>>>
>>>> hth,
>>>> Joe
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ali tan ucer wrote:
>>>>
>>>> did anybody try this really.
>>>> i am not sure how papervision can do this.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:10 PM, ali tan ucer <alitanucer at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Yes.. i did that also.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Seb Lee-Delisle <sebstar55 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> have you tried changing the colour of the textfield to make sure it's
>>>>>> not just that you can't see the colour of the highlighted text?
>>>>>> Seb
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Seb Lee-Delisle
>>>>>> Technical Director
>>>>>> pluginmedia.net
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:55 PM, ali tan ucer <alitanucer at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> yes i did try that.
>>>>>>> no luck :(
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Itai Asseo <iasseo at digitas.com>wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Did you try setting the movieMaterial.interactive = true ?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 9/15/09 2:18 PM, "ali tan ucer" <alitanucer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>  Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Since everyone is asking papervision questions; Here is mine. :)
>>>>>>>> It should relatively simple to do, but i just started pv3d.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> How can someone make a textfield selectable which is in a
>>>>>>>> MovieMaterial applied to a Plane.
>>>>>>>> I know that you need to set focus on the textfield. If you want to
>>>>>>>> edit an editable textfield. Than it is fine.
>>>>>>>> But if the user wants to just select the text, it is not possible.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I saw that, it can be done.
>>>>>>>> http://www.templatemonster.com/flash-templates/20361.html
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Selected the about me section and click and drag on the textfield to
>>>>>>>> have a text selection.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I tried everything. Did make sure, viewport is and material is
>>>>>>>> interactive. Set the focus for the textfield (which works for making the
>>>>>>>> text editable)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I really couldnt figure it out.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> thanks,
>>>>>>>> Ali
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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